Best starship death
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Indeed. Captain Hiroshi's incredible poise and dignity while issuing the order to ram the enemy makes me tear up every time I see that scene.
I am sorry but people who don't like B5 are as aliens and a different species to me.
Yeah, that scene gets to me every time, too. It's no Talyn, but it's still pretty incredible.
It is a powerful, moving sequence to be certain. THe slowed pace of action, the crackling static as they hear Hiroshi's last words, the musical score - it all melds together in one of B5's most memorable scenes. Perhaps the key element though is that it is Earth Force ship vs Earth Force ship. That's the tragedy of the whole episode.
Absolutely. The self sacrifice against her own people along with Christopher Franke's fantastic score made that moment. It doesn't rival Talyn simply because we met Hiroshi and the Churchill in that episode as oppose to knowing Talyn for 2+ seasons.
I think their reaction was fairly normal. They deeply regretted the loss of their ship, but, like most sailors after a sinking, are prepared to move on. The apparent attachment of the original crew to their Enterprise is highly unusual (just as it's highly unusual for mostly the same senior crew to be assigned to a ship for twenty years, or the better part of twenty years in Kirk's and Chekov's cases).
TNG's was a more modern attitude, TOS's was aligned with the age of sail, when crew mobility was less.
Pegasus by far, not just because of her demise but because of the ship's story. Pegasus started as a threat to Galactica and the human race and was crewed by torturers and murderers. Seeing the ship come full circle to a position of savior was very satisfying.
No, the one she blasts with her guns doesn't get destroyed, you can later see all four basestars on Dradis.
Pegasus only took out two basestars in her final battle.
Agreed. The Churchill is powerful because of its symbolism, up to this point there was a slim chance of peace, but once it happens there is no way out of Human civil war and the course of the show is set.
Talyns a good choice because its a noble self-sacifrice, we've come to know his character well, its unexpected and also technically he's still a child.
The Defiants decent departure is lessened by its almost immediate replacement.
I'm going to cheat here though and say that my favourite starship death isn't actually a starship, but a space station -B5. She deserved to go out in blaze of glory at her height, but instead is destroyed by its own crew as she has become unneeded, unimportant and unwanted. It always seemed a very real end, if a little ignoble
And that is an excellent point, one I hadn't considered. Not only were Crichton, Aeryn and others shocked.... but it was Moya herself, Talyn's mother, who had to live with the greatest heartached.
The Enterprise's destruction in Star Trek III would've been more of a shock had it been the original and they stuck it out in the trailers so wasn't that big of a shock.
The Enterprise-D's crash made me stop breathing for a minute and it I didn't even realize it until the saucer section came to a rest.
The Liberator's destruction was a shock too.
The Lexx's death was a shock and alittle sad as well.
The Discovery's destruction was short and sweet, I liked how it wasn't a lingering death.
The battlestar Atlantia's destruction was a shock too in the original Battlestar Galaactica pilot.
The Pollux in B5's No Surrender, No Retreat was an awesome too.
The Enterprise-D's crash made me stop breathing for a minute and it I didn't even realize it until the saucer section came to a rest.
The Liberator's destruction was a shock too.
The Lexx's death was a shock and alittle sad as well.
The Discovery's destruction was short and sweet, I liked how it wasn't a lingering death.
The battlestar Atlantia's destruction was a shock too in the original Battlestar Galaactica pilot.
The Pollux in B5's No Surrender, No Retreat was an awesome too.
Well crap. I'm about halfway through season 3 of Farscape right now and came across some spoilers. Oh well. Can't yell at people for posting spoilers from a show that ended years ago.I hope knowing that Talyn dies won't ruin the moment for me.
Dayum, and you're right in the heart of the best part of the series...well, it's all pretty good really, but season 3 is just over the top.
I gotta go with the Talyn one myself. I grew up with Star Trek the original series but, by the time of the events of ST:III, the Enterprise was a shell of her former self anyway and I honestly was not all that surprised by it. The Talyn....Starburst thing was completely unexpected. Up until he actually did it I still felt Crais would not do it or they would find another way. Then seeing the look on Aeryn's face, knowing she was the one who had named him and she had named him in memory of her father. The look on Chiana's face, as she was the midwife basically, and then knowing that Moya would be heartbroken as she was his mother, and in turn Pilot was kinda like a father. It brought me to tears, which none of the others did.
I voted for Defiant on that list, but would have gone for Pegasus had it been on there.
But the most heartfelt for me was Serenity when in the movie it crash lands down in the planet. It wasn't a death in the end, but at the time first watching it in the cinema, after it came crashing down and got its "wings" ripped off I thought there was no way they'd be able to repair it
But the most heartfelt for me was Serenity when in the movie it crash lands down in the planet. It wasn't a death in the end, but at the time first watching it in the cinema, after it came crashing down and got its "wings" ripped off I thought there was no way they'd be able to repair it
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